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| Emittent | Banco Potosí |
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| Jahr | 1894 |
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| Nennwert | 5 Bolivianos |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Uniformly printed in blue intaglio. A seated allegorical female figure holding leafy branches occupies a central arched vignette, flanked by guilloche ovals and numeral 5 counters on each side. Intricate lathe-work border with floral and foliate ornaments frames the entire reverse. |
| Rückseitenlegende | BANCO POTOSÍ 5 BRADBURY, WILKINSON Y CA. GRABADORES, LONDRES. (Translation: Potosi Bank. Bradbury, Wilkinson and Co. Engravers, London.) |
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| Anmerkungen |
Banco Potosí was one of several Bolivian provincial banks authorized under the 1871 banking law, issuing notes backed primarily by silver deposits from the mines that had defined the region for three centuries. By the mid-1890s, the silver price collapse was already undermining the collateral underpinning these obligations, and Bolivian provincial banking was consolidated by national legislation shortly after — making 1894-dated issues from this bank among the later survivors of that short-lived experiment.
Bradbury Wilkinson handled the engraving and printing from their New Malden works in Surrey, their standard production base for South American commission work throughout the period.